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Mrs. Richard McClure lived on her father-in-law's farm outside Liberty, Allegheny
County, Pa. Although the farm was closer to Pittsburgh, butter, wheat, livestock,
and other products from the farm were sold in Wheeling, Va., later Wheeling, W.Va.
The McClures seem to have had several children, among them Andrew Francis (b. 1838).
The diary apparently descended to the Terrill family of Kentucky; Marshall Terrill's
name appears in the margins of several pages. Diary, 441 p., begun in July 1852, with short, irregular entries concluding in September
1863. At times, entries were made daily; at other times, there are large gaps between
entries. Mrs. McClure began the diary with a dedicatory page addressed to her son,
Andrew Francis McClure, explaining that financial difficulties had led the family
to his grandfather's farm, which they shared with his father's unmarried sister, his
brother and his brother's family, and various tenants. Most of the diary entries document
family life on the farm--the growing of wheat, the production of dairy products, the
slaughtering of hogs and cattle, routine household chores--and social activities,
with Liberty, Pa., as the point of reference. Mrs. McClure occasionally discussed
religious activities, chiefly in the Presbyterian Church. Little mention is made of
occurrences in the outside world until April 1861, when Mrs. McClure noted the attack
on Fort Sumter and declared that Southerners "...want to form an Arastocracy [sic] for themselves." Her outrage at news from the warfront continued through September 1861, when she
decided to wind down her diary writing. The few entries after September 1861 document
Richard McClure's death in 1862 and the purchase of a monument for his grave in September
1863.

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[Identification of item], in the Mrs. Richard McClure Diary #4582, Southern Historical
Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Loaned for microfilming by Suzanna Terrill of Maysville, Ky., (through Bill Dow and
Jacquelyn Hall) in March 1992.

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Mrs. Richard McClure lived on her father-in-law's farm outside Liberty, Allegheny
County, Pa. Although the farm was closer to Pittsburgh, butter, wheat, livestock,
and other products from the farm were sold in Wheeling, Va., later Wheeling, W.Va.
The McClures seem to have had several children, among them Andrew Francis (b. 1838).
The diary apparently descended to the Terrill family of Kentucky; Marshall Terrill's
name appears in the margins of several pages.

Diary, 441 p., begun in July 1852, with short, irregular entries concluding in September
1863. At times, entries were made daily; at other times, there are large gaps between
entries. Mrs. McClure began the diary with a dedicatory page addressed to her son,
Andrew Francis McClure, explaining that financial difficulties had led the family
to his grandfather's farm, which they shared with his father's unmarried sister, his
brother and his brother's family, and various tenants. Most of the diary entries document
family life on the farm--the growing of wheat, the production of dairy products, the
slaughtering of hogs and cattle, routine household chores--and social activities,
with Liberty, Pa., as the point of reference. Mrs. McClure occasionally discussed
religious activities, chiefly in the Presbyterian Church. Little mention is made of
occurrences in the outside world until April 1861, when Mrs. McClure noted the attack
on Fort Sumter and declared that Southerners "...want to form an Arastocracy [sic] for themselves." Her outrage at news from the warfront continued through September 1861, when she
decided to wind down her diary writing. The few entries after September 1861 document
Richard McClure's death in 1862 and the purchase of a monument for his grave in September
1863.